Keith Fletcher
Background My father held a First-Class Certificate of Competency 1– the Colliery Manager’s Certificate. He may also have held a Second-Class Certificate of Competency 2 – the Under Manager’s Certificate. I was born in 1940 when my father was an under manager at Dorman and Long’s Leasingthorne Colliery a in South West Durham. He was subsequently under manager of two other Dorman and Long pits i.e Bowburn and the Mainsforth Collieries (around 1943). He took up his first managership when he became the manager of Leasingthorne Continue reading →